Surely the point of SAP’s security model in this instance is exactly to stop people who don’t have an S-number from gaining access to the content? Circumventing the mechanism like this isn’t really the correct way forward – the correct way forward is to apply for an S-number that will give you access to SAP Marketplace content.

Using the above method means that you are effectively using the authorisation against the RFC link from your SAP system to OSS, which I would suggest should probably only be available to admin/basis team members and not for everyone who can access the system.

Surely if you are an SAP consultant, it is easy to get an S-number? If you go to this link, you should be able to request a proper S-number.

I have got your point of view. FYI, I have OSS Id to browse notes and all. The purpose of this blog to convey a message to all that Notes can be accessed by this way also. This is to download notes and these have to be implemented by BASIS only. This piece of information is very much helpful when we really don’t have S-number.

We can restrict access to SNOTE t-code if we don’t want this to be opened to all BW consultants.

As per the authorizations only Tx – SNOTE accessible to consultants and that to at required time only thru FF access. its an information which can possible to View OSS Notes without S user id thru SNOTE.

First of all thank you for this wonderful post.I don’t have OSS Id.I used to depend on my colleagues for any note.Sometimes I had to wait for more than 3-4 days if they were on leave .Now I can use notes any time.It is saving lots of my time.